Inhumanities
Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19898041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David B Dennis (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author), David B Denn |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Inhumanities (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139104180 |
| OpenAlex | W4239486354 |
| ISBN | 9781139104180 |
| Open Library | OL25307298M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Inhumanities is an unprecedented account of the ways Nazi Germany manipulated and mobilized European literature, philosophy, painting, sculpture and music in support of its ideological ends. David B. Dennis shows how, based on belief that the Third Reich represented the culmination of Western civilization, culture became a key propaganda tool in the regime's program of national renewal and its campaign against political, national and racial enemies. Focusing on the daily output of the Völkischer Beobachter, the party's official organ and the most widely circulating German newspaper of the day, he reveals how activists twisted history, biography and aesthetics to fit Nazism's authoritarian, militaristic and anti-Semitic world views. Ranging from National Socialist coverage of Germans such as Luther, Dürer, Goethe, Beethoven, Wagner and Nietzsche to 'great men of the Nordic West' such as Socrates, Leonardo and Michelangelo, Dennis reveals the true extent of the regime's ambitious attempt to reshape the 'German mind'
Art · Art history · Civilization · German · German culture · Ideology · Literature · Militarism · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sculpture · European history and politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · 1918-1933 · 1933-1945 · 1939-1945 · 20th century · civilization · Fascism and culture · Germany · Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei · Nazi propaganda · Party work · Press and politics · Propaganda · Völkischer Beobachter (Munich, Germany : 1920) · Western · Western civilization · World War · World war, propaganda
Transnational Nazism
Xenophon and the Nazis
Mozart au service du Grand Reich. Instrumentalisations politiques et mises en scène nazies en Autriche annexée, 1938-1945
L’Anno verdiano et la Mozart-Jahr (1941). Célébrations musicales, mises en scène politiques et négociations identitaires
Mobilizing the Western tradition for present politics
German Gymnastics, Modern German Dance, and Nazi Aesthetics
The Subjective Dimension of Nazism
| Citations per year | 0.54 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |